Environment, Health, and Place in Global Perspective: Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2002

全球视角下的环境、健康和地位：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校会议，2002 年 4 月

• 批准号: 0114570
• 负责人: Gregg Mitman
• 金额: $ 1.52万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0114570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Environment; Health; Place; Global; Perspective

Proposal AbstractGreg MitmanEnvironment, Health and Place in Global Perspective: Conference ProposalThis project is a two-day workshop-style conference devoted to "Environment, Health, and Place in Global Perspective," in April 2002 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars drawing from the fields of environmental history, history of science, history of medicine, the social studies of science, and medical geography to explore the relationships between environment and health from a global perspective. One of the central theoretical questions of this conference is to explore how considerations of materiality, environment, and place can contribute to new historiographic perspectives within the history of science that move us beyond debates generated by social constructivism and its critics. A companion purpose of this conference is to discuss questions and frameworks that link the local to more global and comparative historical narratives.Through the 1990's, many creative contributions to the history of science, as elsewhere in science studies, have revolved around the sociocultural dimensions of scientific work. These explorations, whether of scientists' language, practices, or social relations have been attacked for neglecting the material engagements and interventions of science, as well as scientists' own, often more naturalistic accounts of what they do. Over the last few years, within the history of science itself as well as within neighboring fields such as environmental and medical history, scholars have grown impatient with the ideological polarity of these debates. Largely granting the constructivists' points about the importance of society and culture to natural knowledge, these scholars have sought new ways of reconciling these insights with a greater appreciation of the material dimensions of science. Within the history of science, this trend has led to a growing appreciation of the importance of geography and place in scientific work and in this and other fields, of the ways in which histories of place or environment both involve and invoke the human body. This conference will bring together individuals from each of these fields to discuss and chart frameworks for this new methodological terrain toward which they have been converging. Organizers also hope to steer conferees toward international comparisons and questions. Topically centered upon the history of environment, place and health, conference participants include scholars whose work ranges through two centuries and across America and Europe as well as the Third World. The case studies reexamine older world-scale narratives, such as colonialism and modernization, often invoked in the history of science and its disciplinary neighbors. Organizers also anticipate discussion about newer ones like globalization, which have sparked scholarly interests but whose implications for the history of science and these other fields have been less explored.

这个项目是一个为期两天的研讨会式的会议，主题是“全球视角下的环境、健康和地点”，会议于2002年4月在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校举行。会议旨在汇聚来自环境史、科学史、医学史、科学社会学和医学地理学等领域的跨学科学者小组，从全球角度探讨环境与健康之间的关系。这次会议的中心理论问题之一是探索对物质、环境和地点的考虑如何有助于在科学史上形成新的史学观点，使我们超越社会建构主义及其批评者产生的争论。这次会议的一个配套目的是讨论将当地与更具全球性和可比性的历史叙事联系起来的问题和框架。通过1990年的S，科学史上的许多创造性贡献，就像科学研究中的其他地方一样，都围绕着科学工作的社会文化维度。这些探索，无论是对科学家的语言、实践或社会关系的探索，都因为忽视了科学的物质参与和干预而受到攻击，以及科学家自己对他们所做的事情的更具自然主义色彩的描述。在过去的几年里，在科学史本身以及环境和医学史等邻近领域，学者们对这些辩论的意识形态两极分化变得不耐烦了。这些学者在很大程度上认可了建构主义者关于社会和文化对自然知识的重要性的观点，他们寻求了新的方法，将这些见解与对科学的物质维度的更大欣赏相协调。在科学史上，这一趋势导致越来越多的人认识到地理和地点在科学工作中以及在这一领域和其他领域的重要性，认识到地点或环境的历史涉及并援引人体的方式。这次会议将把来自这些领域的个人聚集在一起，讨论并绘制他们正在汇聚的这一新的方法论领域的框架。组织者还希望引导与会者进行国际比较和提出问题。会议以环境、地点和健康的历史为主题，与会者包括学者，他们的工作跨越了两个世纪，横跨美洲、欧洲和第三世界。这些案例研究重新审视了更古老的世界范围的叙事，如殖民主义和现代化，这些叙事经常在科学史和它的学科邻居中被引用。组织者还预计会讨论全球化等较新的问题，这些问题已经引发了学术兴趣，但其对科学史和其他领域的影响却鲜有人探讨。